On December 21, at 15:00, the International Multimedia Press Center “Russia Today” will host a round table on the topic: “Transformation of China’s Foreign Policy against the background of modern challenges”, in which the analytical report of the Institute of International Studies of the MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia “From Soft Power to discursive Power: new ideologies of China’s Foreign Policy” will be presented
Participants:
– First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, ex-Ambassador of Russia to China (2013-2022) Andrey DENISOV;
– Maxim SUCHKOV, Director of the MGIMO Institute of International Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia;
– Head of the School of Oriental Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics of the Higher School of Economics Andrey KARNEEV;
– Senior Lecturer of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations of RUDN Evgeniya ZHURAVLEVA;
– Igor DENISOV, Senior Researcher at the Center for East Asian and SCO Studies at the MGIMO Institute of International Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia;
– Ivan ZUENKO, Senior Researcher at the Center for Eurasian Studies at the MGIMO Institute of International Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
In the last decade, Chinese foreign policy has been in the process of transformation: about modest and passive, it is becoming more and more active, ambitious, corresponding to the combined power and international status of the country. There is a rethinking of the conceptual foundations of China’s foreign policy. Instead of the policy of “soft power” that Beijing previously used to promote its image abroad, the concept of “discursive power” is gaining more and more weight. Beijing sees the root of many of its problems in the discursive hegemony of the West, including the ability to influence the international agenda through the institutions of global governance.
What is the policy of strengthening the “discursive force” in the interpretation of China? What are the prospects for its success? How will Russian-Chinese and Sino-American relations develop, which seem to be key to China’s foreign policy?
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